Your Baby and Child

"This is a brilliant book. It's easy to read and informative without lecturing. It offers friendly and helpful advice and gives an insight into the psychology of your baby so you can better understand why they are behaving in a certain way. It helped me understand and communicate with my baby more effectively. Its a must have book even if you just refer to it to reassure yourself that you're not doing anything wrong."
~ Written on 2008-04-01

"I find this book patronising and preaching, written in the most ridiculously convoluted language, and failing to clearly set out practical advice and options for how to deal with baby care. Every time I pick it up thinking it might offer something, I just get annoyed! Nice photos though. Buy 'Baby Love' by Robin Barker, it's excellent.
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~ Written on 2007-12-22

"This book has seen me through four babies and I can't recommend it highly enough. Penelope Leach clearly knows just how to pitch her advice to suit both babies and parents without making you feel guilty or obliged to follow a particular routine. She gave me confidence as a new mother to follow my instincts and ignore a lot of what I was told by older people (who have since changed their opinions). Buy it, read and re-read it, recommend it and pass it on to all new mums!"
~ Written on 2007-10-10

"I bought this as I wanted a book that I could refer to every now and then for advice and information on various issues. My son is currently teething and so I went to that section only to find one single page with very little useful information. I must admit the book looks great and the size makes you quite hopeful however I found the text layout a bit confusing, quite out of date pictures and not a very useful resource at all. I wouldn't recommend this book."
~ Written on 2007-06-02

"Let me give you one example of this book's advice, taken from page 93: "29 degrees C... is a reasonable temperature to aim at in a room where you are going to bath her." The house, the author adds, should generally be 18C to 20C. If anyone can can find a definition of the word 'reasonable' that can be applied to this piece of advice, please let us know. No parent has ever heated their bathroom to 10 degrees C higher than the rest of their house.

Perhaps some of the rest of this book is quite useful, and perhaps some of it is a bit more practical than this. But I can't trust anyone who writes like this."
~ Written on 2007-01-15